The Russians are screwing with the GPS system to send bogus navigation data to thousands of ships - Business Insider
Gaslighting, yes or no?
I found this while trolling and I thought “NOW what’s up with those dastardly commie bastids?” So I read it and figured if this is true, then this means the RUSSIANS!!! can not only hack their way into determining who our prez is, they can hack their way into global radar systems and cause everybody’s directional systems to go KABLOOIE thereby causing all kinds of a dilemma, what with our “never ending battle for truth, justice and the American way”[1] and the threat that those bastids will make it so we’ll never know how to get where we’re going or to know if we’re where we’re supposed to be when we get there.
It’s got to be true, right? Because I’ve used BI as a ‘source’ before (but after I found stuff from other sources that confirm what they were ‘reporting’) And I generally research the the other ‘source, the one behind the story that provided the information we’re all supposed to get all hysterical over. It’s good practice to check to be sure the ‘source’ behind your/my source is credible and couldn’t possibly have any ulterior motives. Which finally brings me to the point of my OP. No source is 100% reliable. Or honest. But when you read an article that tells you...
The Russians are screwing with the GPS system to send bogus navigation data to thousands of ships - Business Insider
• The Russians are hacking the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) on a mass scale in order to confuse thousands of ships and airplanes about where they are, according to a study by Centre for Advanced Defense (C4AD).
• Law enforcement, shipping, airlines, power stations, your phone, and anything else dependent on GPS time and location synchronization, are vulnerable to GNSS hacking.
• All of Britain's critical infrastructure is dependent on GNSS and GPS, according to a report commissioned by the UK Space Agency.
• Russian president Putin's summer dacha is protected by a GNSS spoofing array that helps create a no-fly zone over his vast Italian-style mansion.
• GNSS jamming equipment costs $300.
On May 15, 2018, under a sunny sky, Russian President Vladimir Putin drove a bright orange truck in a convoy of construction vehicles for the opening of the Kerch Bridge from Russia to Crimea. At 11 miles long, it is now the longest bridge in either Europe or Russia.
As Putin drove across the bridge, something weird happened. The satellite navigation systems in the control rooms of more than 24 ships anchored nearby suddenly started displaying false information about their location. Their GPS systems told their captains they were anchored more than 65 kilometres away — on land, at the Anapa Airport.
This was not a random glitch, according to the Centre for Advanced Defense, a security think tank. It was a deliberate plan to make it difficult for anyone nearby to track or navigate around the presence of Putin, C4AD says.
https://www.businessinsider.com/gnss-hacking-spoofing-jamming-russians-s...
...you really gotta wonder. Am I getting the business from the usual peddlers of RUSSIA!!! Nonsense or does Putin really have a secret weapon capable of bringing down all shipping, transportation, law enforcement, and stranding summer vacationers/Coachella travelers world wide? So I looked up Center for Advanced Defense (C4AD). It’s quite the non-profit organization.
C4AD
C4ADS is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing data-driven analysis and evidence-based reporting on global conflict and transnational security issues.
We use cutting-edge technologies to manage, integrate, and analyze disparate data from diverse languages, regions, and sources, incorporating our own field research from conflict zones and fragile states. We seek to engage with local and international audiences and produce compelling analysis on conflict and security issues. In doing so, we fill a critical gap left by traditional public sector and profit-driven institutions.
How about that, they do their own research. Bet no one ever thought of that before. But I snidely digress...
Who runs this organization? I’ll cherry pick a few of the samples for you:
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
RICHARD WIRT, PHD: CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
Dr. Richard Wirt is an Intel Senior Fellow, former Vice President and General Manager of Intel Corporation's Software and Solutions Group, and former Chief Technology Officer for In-Q-Tel.
HON. APRIL FOLEY: MEMBER OF THE BOARD
The Hon. April H. Foley is a former US Ambassador to Hungary and former First Vice President of the Export Import Bank of the United States.
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NEWTON HOWARD, PHD, HDR: MEMBER OF THE BOARD
Dr. Newton Howard is founder and was the first chairman of the Center for Advanced Defense Studies, now known as C4ADS. Currently he is the director of the Mind Machine Project and a resident scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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LTC (RET.) CHRIS KAMMERMANN: Member of the Board
Colonel Chris Kammermann is CEO and President of CLK Executive Decisions, a consulting firm specializing in defense and security contracting. A graduate of the US Military Academy, he holds a Master of Public Administration Degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
JOHN CALLERY, SSA: MEMBER OF THE BOARD
Special Agent John Callery is a Supervisory Special Agent with the Department of Justice, with over 26 years of law enforcement field experience. SSA Callery’s tours of duty have included Los Angeles, Bangkok, Malaysia, and Washington, DC. He has led various high-level international investigations and coordinated joint US and foreign cooperation in these complex investigations.
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JOHN PEARCE: MEMBER OF THE BOARD
John Pearce is the director of business development at SOC-USA, and has over 30 years experience within the Defense and Intelligence Communities. His primary expertise includes image processing, data processing, communications systems, collection systems, post processing systems, and tasking systems.
Quite the bunch of non-biased boys and girls who I’m unfairly slandering and abusing or just another bunch of shitweasels out to pull our strings? One guy’s line of work intrigued me. The guy from MIT, the Founder of this organization, the MIT Mind Machine Project guy, it’s quite the project, that is for damn sure.
MIT MIND MACHINE PROJECT
OUR GOALS
The work of MMP spans four intellectual generations, revisiting fundamental assumptions about the nature of the brain, cognition, computing, and intelligence. The project is based on the belief that, by bringing together current advances in each of these areas with insights from their roots, it will be possible to fulfill the early vision that lies at their intersection.
MMP seeks to develop technologies for reading, writing (and virtually simulating) millions of neurons concurrently, to enable interactive exploration of both individual circuits and overall brain function.
Mind (models for thought), Memory (accumulating and using experience), Body (scalable substrates to embody intelligence), and Brain/Intent (looking for advanced applications of these technologies, such as “non-chemical based” solutions for psychiatric treatments and brain prostheses).
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Brain and Intent: Study the embodiment of intent in neural systems. It incorporates wet laboratory and clinical components, as well as a mathematical modeling and representation components. Develop functional brain and neuron interfacing abilities. Use intent-based models to facilitate representation and exchange of information.Research areas: wet computer, brain language, brain interfaces
Lead researchers: Newton Howard, Sebastian Seung, Ed Boyden
Prospective applications include natural language understanding, unsupervised data inference, and assistance with mental illness and aging.
After doing my due diligence, I’ve come to the conclusion that this article is just another example of how stupid The Great Unwashed are perceived to be by our ‘betters’. Yeah, plenty are going to believe it. Some jackasses still believe Saddam had WMDs. But this ‘article’ is another example of why you can’t believe most of ‘information’ from any media outlet. They all ‘have an ‘agenda’. Here in the US it’s turning the Cold War into a Hot Mess.
[1] From The Adventures of Superman, Wikiquote, https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Superman
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Rumor has it their weapons are more effective too
This may be war mongering bs but...
Putin spent even more time on the subject, extolling, and playing animated videos of, five new Russian strategic weapons https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2019/03/russia-turning-its-nuclear-rhet...
and another piece to support your hypothesis
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/04/03/russia-is-tricking-gps-to-protect-p...
At this point I wish china and russia would unite to form a gold based currency that collapses the US economy/government without a war.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
I recall reading this last year,
Maybe a year ago, maybe at The Saker or MOA. That other countries, primarily Russia and China had figured out how to fool our GPS. And that practicing these new techniques they were able to successfully cause at least two Navy vessels to crash into tanker/barge traffic. Wish I had bookmarked those stories.
But good question, is this real or is it propaganda to justify increasing military budgets?
Of curse, we did have ships running afoul of other vessels, and
those assertions make good cover for the combines ineptitude, negligence and possible illicit pirpose to our pre collision maneuvers.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Magnetic North versus True North...
This is a fact, in terms of what's happening with our global poles as we blog: Earth's magnetic north pole is moving faster than ever.
As far as GPS devices being hacked to accommodate someone like Putin in his travels, versus ship navigation, in general--especially in northern seas--are apples and oranges, IMHO.
"Freedom is something that dies unless it's used." --Hunter S. Thompson
Smells like BS and smells like a BS factory.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
China just launched a significantly advanced
...navigation system, world wide. They've also announced that anyone may use it free of charge. One of it's advanced features include text messaging communications. Russia and Europe also have their own systems so they are not dependent on the US, who might turn out the lights at any moment.
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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato
Just think, if the US hadn't sold out to the MIC
...and kept scientific advancements in the government, like the old NASA, we could be delivering technologies of the future to the Middle East instead of death and destruction and decades of chaos and dislocation. We got nothing to show for 20 years and trillions of dollars of US geopolitical stupidity.
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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato